Medical and Healthcare Interactions: Members' Competence and Socialization

by Sara Keel (Editor)

Overview

Presenting a series of empirical studies by scholars working with approaches from ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, Medical and Healthcare Interactions studies real-life work and training encounters among medical and healthcare professionals and trainees or between professionals and patients.

Using video analysis and detailed description, it considers the methods and procedures through which professionals, trainees, and patients produce actions and interpret those of others, exploring questions of member competence and socialization within situated courses of interaction.

The book offers fruitful contributions for training and education in the field of healthcare and will appeal to scholars in the human and social sciences with interests in interaction, ethnomethodology, and conversation analysis.

Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032320069
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/06/2025
Series:	Directions in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Sara Keel is a Senior Teaching and Research Assistant at the Institute of Education of the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Working within an ethnomethodological and conversation analytic perspective, she investigates members’ understanding and embodied organization of ordinary, institutional, and professional practices. Her research projects focus on distinct settings, such as everyday family life, migrants' press conferences, interprofessional hospital meetings, and more recently physiotherapy consultations to address socialization, membership categorization, patient participation, or the use of digital tools in healthcare as a members’ phenomenon. She has published in various international journals, her doctoral research, Socialization: Parent-Child Interaction in Everyday Life, has been published by Routledge (2016), and she has co-edited a collection on institutional interactions and special issues, most recently on touch and closeness in naturally organized activities.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Competence and socialization in medical and healthcare interactions  Chapter 1: When neurologists solicit patients’ treatment preferences: The relevance of talk as action for understanding why shared decision-making is so limited in practice  Chapter 2: Working out interprofessional collaboration: Flight nurses’ practical management of prehospital emergency care  Chapter 3: Senior staff member walks ahead, nursing intern follows: Mobility practices in hospital corridors  Chapter 4: Asking questions in the operating room  Chapter 5: Monitoring, coordinating, and correcting professional conduct: Soliciting absent requests during surgery  Chapter 6: Teaching and learning how to identify an audible order in traffic: Street-crossing instructional sequences for the visually impaired  Chapter 7: Instructing and socializing patients with aphasia to gaze at the therapist’s mouth to produce speech sounds in language therapy  Chapter 8: How to use a mobile app at home: Learning-by-doing introductions in physiotherapy consultations  Chapter 9: Socialization and accountability: Instructional responses to peer feedback in healthcare simulation debriefing